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World 'Abandoned' Somalia

DUBAI—Somalia's foreign minister said Monday he doubted the international community had the will to tackle piracy and said his country's people felt "abandoned" by the world.

Speaking in Dubai at an antipiracy conference, Mohammed Abdulahi Omar Asharq, foreign minister in Somalia's transitional government, criticized world powers for failing to deal robustly with Somalia's instability even as they mounted interventions in...